The late Mr. H. 31. Jenkins. 
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In 1870, a Report on Cheshire Farming, and one on Belgian 
Agriculture, are the result of inspections made during 1869 ; 
and in addition to these there is a paper on the possibility of 
adopting the American system of Factory management in our 
Dairy districts. The Belgian report is the first of a series by 
which Mr. Jenkins opened English eyes to the merits of foreign 
Agriculture. It gives a detailed account of both the " petite " 
and the " grande culture " characteristic of Belgian farming ; 
and it also gives much detailed information on flax-growing 
and on other specialities, whether of cultivation or general land 
management, in that country. The volume to which these three 
papers were contributed by him contains an unusual variety of 
agricultural information — Hand-labour, steam cultivation, crop 
culture (potatoes, hops, mangolds, cereal grains), local agri- 
culture (Monmouthshire, Scilly Islands, Belgium, Cheshire), 
cattle-foods (straw-chafF, and beetroot pulp), manures (guanos 
and Chemical Committee's Report) ; estate equipment ; dairy 
management ; river embankments in Oxfordshire, reclamation 
of Whittlesea mere ; implements and live-stock at Oxford. The 
volume is remarkable for its variety, both as regards the subjects 
discussed, and the localities and the authorship ; and it is striking 
testimony, thus early in his career, to the vigour, insight and 
outlook of the Editor, that " the Council refer with satisfaction " 
in their Annual Report to the General Meeting in December to 
the two numbers of the ' Journal ' published during the current 
year, " which contain papers of more than ordinary interest." 
The report on the agriculture of Belgium Is especially named as 
calling for particular notice, and it is added that " it is very 
creditable to Mr. Jenkins that in the short time which has 
elapsed since his appointment as Editor he should have made 
himself sufficiently conversant with both the science and the 
practice of Agriculture to make and write a report of this high 
character." Among the local reports in this volume Is the first 
of a now long series on the Prize farms inspected by the Society's 
judges. — Towards the close of 1870 Mr. Jenkins read before the 
Society of Arts a paper on the Dairy Factory system In America, 
and on its relation to the great subject of co-operation in Agri- 
culture, to which reference must be made hereafter. 
Notes on Continental poultry- 
keeping. 
Report on the practice of ensilage 
at home and abroad. 
Farming and Agricultural traininf; 
in reformatory and industrial 
schools with notes on spade- 
labour. 
Notes on the cultivation of tobacco 
in the north-west of Europe. 
1883 Vol. XIX., 2nd series, p. 184, et seq. 
1884 „ XX., „ p. 126, „ 
lf:86 „ XXU., „ p. 171, „ 
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